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Ezekiel 44:4-16
The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:4-16
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commentaryMatthew Henry on Ezekiel 44:1-31This chapter contains ordinances relative to the true priests. The prince evidently means Christ, and the words in 2, may remind us that no other can enter heaven, the true sanctuary, as Christ did; namely, by virtue of…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:1-31EXPOSITION The prophet, having finished his account of the temple, or place of worship, proceeds, in the second section of his vision (Ezekiel 44-46.), to set forth the culture, or ritual, to be performed in the temple;…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryIdolatry of the Levites. (b. c. 574.)IDOLATRY OF THE LEVITES. (B. C. 574.) This is much to the same purport with what we had in the beginning of Ezekiel 43:1-31 As the prophet must look again upon what he had before seen, so he must be told again what he h…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:4-9Church-worship vital to the soul. As the heart is vital to the body, and sends its tide of life to every organ in the system, so the sanctuary is the central source of spiritual life to the human commonwealth. What the…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:4From the outside of the east gate of the outer court the prophet was brought the way of the north gate, but whether of the outer or of the inner is uncertain, and set down before the house. On the ground that the prophe…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:4Reverence. The prophet was brought "the way of the north gate before the house," because it was thence that, on a previous occasion, he had been directed to gaze upon the provision for idolatrous worship which aroused t…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:5Having fallen on his face before the renewed theophany, the prophet was summoned as once before (Ezekiel 40:4), but with greater emphasis than before, to mark well, or set his heart to observe, the communications about…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:5The attentive consideration of religious truth. Ezekiel was to mark well the minute directions which were given to him concerning the temple. He was not a builder, and there is no reason to think that he was expected to…Joseph S. Exell and contributors